Alexander Hamilton and the growth of the new nation /
Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Transaction Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I: The Union Against Great Britain
- 1. The Making of a Revolutionary
- 2. Aide-de-Camp to Washington
- 3. The Struggle Against Inflation
- 4. The Quarrel with Washington
- Part II: The Union Against Chaos
- 5. Congress and the Army
- 6. Law and the Loyalists
- 7. "A Rage for Liberty
- 8. Democracy and Banking
- 9. "More Power to Congress
- 10. The Constitutional Convention (1)
- 11. The Constitutional Convention (2)
- 12. The Federalist
- 13. The Rule of Law
- 14. A More Perfect Union
- Part III: The Union Consummated
- 15. The First Secretary of the Treasury
- 16. The Report on Public Credit
- 17. "Speculators" vs. "Patriots
- 18. The Bank of the United States
- 19. The Report on Manufactures
- 20. The Effort to Transform the American Economy
- 21. The Opposition Emerges
- 22. The Attack Upon Hamilton
- 23. Hamilton's Quarrel with Jefferson and Burr
- Part IV: The Union Against Foreign Aggression
- 24. The Proclamation of Neutrality
- 25. The War Clouds Gather
- 26. The Whisky Rebellion
- 27. Jay's Treaty
- 28. The Election of 1796
- 29. The Mission to France
- 30. Second in Command of the United States Army
- 31. The War That Refused to Come to a Boil
- 32. The Effort to Avert Peace
- 33. The Election of 1800
- Part V: The Union Above All
- 34. A Prophet of Woe
- 35. Defender of the Freedom of the Press
- 36. The Duel with Burr
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
